Blade for knitting-wheels



(No Model.)

B. W. GORMLY.

BLADE EOE KNITTING WHEELS. No. 451,376. Patented Apr. 28, 1891.

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ROBERT \V. GORMLY, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

BLADE FOR KNITTING-WHEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,376, dated April28, 1891.

lierial No. 361,007. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT W. GoRMLY, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in BladesforKnitting-IVheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts, hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to the blades or wings of knitting-wheels-such asthose commonly known as burr-wheels, sinker-wheels, or other wheelsadapted to be used in knittingmachineswherein such wheels are revolvedby the cylinder-needles which are brought into engagement with suchblades by the revoluble n1ovement of the needle-cylinder, the needlesentering the spaces between the blades. In certain kinds of work it isfound desirable to prevent some of the needles from entering suchspaces, and various devices have been employed to fill such spaces, orpartially fill the same, to limit the depth to which the needles canenter. Pieces of metal known as presser-bits have been permanentlysecured to the periphery of the wheel in such spaces, as in plush-burrs.

My invention consists in providing some of the blades of such wheelseach with a presserbit integral with the blade; and the object of myinvention is to cheapen the construction of wheels having presser-bits.

In some kinds of work it is desirable to provide a presser-bit on everythird space between the blades of aknitting-wheel,w11ile in otherspresser-bits may be required in every fourth or fifth space. The bladesof such wheels are usually inserted in peripheral grooves and madedetachable. By having the bits secured to the individual detachableblades the number and position of the presser-bits can be easily varied,as desired, upon the same wheel.

In the drawings I have represented in Figure 1 a view in side elevationof a knittingwheel known as a plush-burr wheel and a portion of theneedle-cylinder and needles of a circular-knitting machine, showing therelative positions of the wheel and cylinder when in use, some of theblades of the wheel being removed. to better show my improved bladeinserted therein. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a portion of the wheeldetached with the same arrangement of blades. Fig. 3 is a view in sideelevation of one of myimproved blades detached. Fig. 4 is a horizontalsection of the blade, taken on the broken line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Figs. 5and 6 are respectively face and edge views showing a modified form ofblade.

A is a portion of the cylinder, and A knitting-needles secured thereon.

B is the knitting-wheel, revoluble upon a fixed stud B in the usualmanner. The wheel is provided with peripheral grooves B adapted toreceive the blades O and O, detachably secured therein in the usualmanner. The blades are so arranged upon the periphery of the wheel as toafford the needle-spaces 0 between them.

My improved blade G is made like the other blades C heretofore in use,except that a cut is made in the body of the blade and a portion struckup to form the presser-bit 1),

projecting sidewise from the face of the blade, all as shown in Figs. 1to a. The portion struck up is made of a width to approximately till thespace between such blade and its neighboring blade on that side in thewheel. Such bit may be cut and struck up by suitable dies, such as arein common use for cutting and striking up portions of sheet metal.

D is the aperture formed in the body part of the blade by cutting andstriking up the portion forming the bit. I

The form of the bit can be varied by changing the shape of the dies bywhich the bit is cutand struck up.

When desired, the blade may be formed from a blank having a projectingtongue D as shown in Fig. 5, which tongue is bent up along the dottedline D Fig. 5, to the position shown in Fig. 6 to form the bit.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure In testimony whereof I havehereunto set by Letters Patent, ismy hand this 2(1 day of August, 1890.

As an improved article of manufacture, a blade for knitting-Wheels,having a presser- ROBERT W. GORMLY. 5 bit integral therewith cut andstruck up from Witnesses:

the body part of the blade, substantially as FRANK C. CURTIS,

described. E. W. GREENMAN.

